What is Ahkiyyinni?
Ahkiyyinni's origan is well known by the Inuit people. Once a handsome and athletic youth, who had one great passion: dance. His skill at dance was widely known and legendary because of it's buety and strength, as well as passion, making him widely regarded. When tragedy occured and the young died well before his time, his body was buried atop a high hill overlooking a bueatiful stretch of a large, powerful river, where he aparently was at peace. This changed one day when a boatload of young men sailed past the grave. They joked and laughed at him, saying how he loved to dance, and never would again while sealed in the tightness of the grave. These cruel words shattereed his peaceful slumber, and he clawed his way out his burial mound and immediatly started feverishly dancing. In the frenzy of dance he tore off his own shoulder blade and beat it like a drum. As he saw the men in the boat react with horror he began to laugh crazily, and as the frenzy of the dance increased magic flowed into Ahkiyyinni. The magic coursed through him and through his movements he forced the ground to tremble and the river's water rose extremely quickly. Paired with the movement of the earth the water that expanded outward, and within moments the young men new that if he continued any longer they would drown. Seeing and hearing their abject terror only compeled him to dance faster, and almost immediatly the boat capsized and the young men were all drowned.
Many believe Ahkiyyinni still roams the rivers of Alaska and the north-west territories of Canada. If one were to cross paths with him there is only one unlikely option for survival. Stand on the firmest land you can and passionately praise his dancing. If this is done with the utmost respect and reverence he can, occasionally, allow those who show great respect and courage to escape a supernatural death in frigid and turbulent waters.
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Reveling in his newfound power he was desperate not to return to the crushing and stifling tightness of his burial mound, so set out to explore the world. Before long he discovered a major drawback, that the further away from his native waters he was, the more intense the need to return to grave became. Intoxicated by his power, and driven almost mad by his limitations, he vowed to forever wander the shores of his native waters, killing all that crossed his path.
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